Quote Originally Posted by Robstyx
Until we recognize that it's in all our best interests that everybody be educated, that everyone be given an opportunity to succed or fail...and until we discontinue our decades old, emperialistic tendency of supporting petty despots and mock royalty who, in turn, manipulate the downtrodden masses...well, we're gonna continue to create underclasses that will lash out, will seek to oppress, seek to control...simply, seek to survive and do so in the only given eschatological context with which they are familiar.
I went back and re-read your first post...I still can't see this^message in that post...you sure like takin' the roundabout approach Bobby

But I totally agree...history is full of opression. No one religion or philosophy has been any worse or better than another. One culture has usually advanced at the expense of another. Cultures fall for various reasons, many of them self-inflicted. Since humanity doesn't actually ever learn anything from history, we should prolly just avoid it.

It is too bad that the only outreach of 'education' from our end seems to be religious missionaries who have a Bible-first agenda. The underclass has always been the target of religious missions...its an easy sell - "you are not in charge of your own situation, let God take care of it for you; here, have some bread and water and this new soccer ball".

So, if "it's in all our best interests that everybody be educated", who is doing the educating, and how?

and until we discontinue our decades old, emperialistic tendency of supporting petty despots and mock royalty who, in turn, manipulate the downtrodden masses
that's just not the NWO way...the best part about being in charge is by being able to tell at a glance who the downtrodden are, and keeping them there by manipulating them - its why people want to be in charge. It isn't just about having a piece of the pie, its about saying who else gets to have some too.

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